Xigua Video Search Scraper (西瓜视频搜索)

Search Xigua Video (西瓜视频, ByteDance's long-form video platform) by keyword and export structured video data: titles, summaries, durations, watch and comment counts, cover images, author info, and direct video IDs/URLs.

Unofficial. Not affiliated with, authorized, or endorsed by Xigua Video / ByteDance. This is an independent tool that retrieves publicly available data via a third-party API. Use it in compliance with Xigua Video's terms of service and applicable law; you are responsible for how you use the data.

What it does

• Keyword search — give it one or more keywords (Chinese keywords return the most results) and it pages through Xigua's search feed, returning one item per video.
• Filters out the search feed's separator / ad / empty-content cards and keeps only real video records.
• Optional sorting (comprehensive / latest / most watched) and duration filtering.

Input

Field	Type	Description
searchKeywords	array of strings	Keywords to search for. Default: ["美食"].
maxItems	integer	Max total videos across all keywords. Default 10.
orderType	string	Sort: comprehensive / publish_time (latest) / video_play (most watched).
minDuration	integer	Optional. Minimum video length in seconds.
maxDuration	integer	Optional. Maximum video length in seconds.
proxyConfiguration	object	Optional Apify Proxy config (usually not needed).

Example input

{
  "searchKeywords": ["美食"],
  "maxItems": 10
}

Output

Each dataset item is a flat video record:

{
  "groupId": "6867358073854362123",
  "itemId": "6867358073854362123",
  "videoId": "v02004a30000bt6redppmnn8nv6uidi0",
  "url": "https://www.ixigua.com/6867358073854362123",
  "title": "羊腿烤肉鸡爪子，乡村食叔12个户外精彩美食瞬间，你最馋哪个",
  "summary": "农村大叔秘制各种户外美食...",
  "sourceName": "乡村食叔",
  "watchCount": 679819,
  "commentCount": 426,
  "videoDuration": 377,
  "publishTime": 1598943660,
  "coverUrl": "https://p26-sign.bdxiguaimg.com/...",
  "author": {
    "userId": "223935603685203",
    "nickname": "乡村食叔",
    "avatarUrl": "https://...",
    "authInfo": "优质美食领域创作者"
  },
  "source": "search:美食"
}

Notes

• Powered by the TikHub API. Provide your TikHub API key as the secret environment variable TIKHUB_API_KEY.
• Xigua's search feed is paginated by offset; pages often contain only layout cards, so the actor keeps advancing the offset until real video results dry up.